Red Faction Collection

I’ll never forget that magical summer of 2009 when everyone went around smashing buildings to pieces with an ostrich-shaped hammer. Well, the noughties are back in fashion, baby, and Red Faction Guerrilla is back too. Volition’s smashtastic shooter is being snazzed up a little for a re-release as the new Re-Mars-tered edition, publishers THQ Nordic announced today. They put the hyphens there to highlight the wordplay, not me. Re-Mars-tered will have fancier graphics and, they tell me, will come as a free upgrade for people who own the original on Steam. (more…)

THQ Nordic has announced plans to bring back another old-time THQ classic with another weird, tongue-twisting title: Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered will feature updated graphics with improved lighting, shading, post-processing effects, and support for 4K resolutions.

Released in 2009, Red Faction: Guerrilla is an open-world game about a guy who gets a job working the mines on Mars, and quickly ends up at the forefront of an insurgency against the pushy jerks of the Earth Defense Force. It's best known for the wild destructiveness it enabled: players can destroy pretty much everything they come across, including full-sized structures. And in case there was any doubt, yes, killing a whole bunch of bad guys at once by smashing a huge truck into the building they were standing on is very satisfying.

It's all thoroughly silly—surely Martian architecture would be sturdier than this—but it's a lot of fun, too: We ranked Red Faction: Guerrilla among the top ten THQ games of all time shortly after the publisher went under, calling it "expertly paced, with a campaign that escalated into hysterical carnage." And THQ Nordic actually hinted that something was up earlier this year when it released a surprisingly comprehensive multiplayer balance update for the Steam edition that was released in 2014. All was hush-hush at the time, but now the secret is out.

THQ Nordic hasn't announced a release target yet, but I'd expect to be hearing more about that fairly soon. Until that happens, enjoy some screens.

Update: THQ Nordic has confirmed that the remastered edition of Red Faction: Guerrilla will be free for everyone who owns the original on Steam.

first of all, a big think you to you all - Steam announced all the Nominees for the Steam Awards 2017 yesterday. Due to your help and support, we are happy to say that Red Faction Guerrilla is among the Nominees for the "Cry Havoc And Let Slip The Dogs of War" Award.

On December 28, starting 10 am PST time, we can now bring this to an end and start voting for the game we love for being the winner of that category.

The “Cry Havoc And Let Slip The Dogs of War” AwardThe Bard said it best. This game doesn't necessarily offer the biggest explosions... it offers something better. Potential. Potential to be a rampaging force of nature. Or not. Who knows. You're an agent of chaos and no one is going to tell you what to do.

We would feel honored if Red Faction Guerrilla gets your vote in that final round.

The whole THQ Nordic team already wishes you Merry Christmas and happy holidays with your families and friends.

Offering up to 80 percent off select games, the THQ Nordic Week sale casts its wallet-friendly net over some of the publisher's games (Nordic Games, you may recall, rebranded last year) such as the Red Faction Collection—which includes Red Faction, Red Faction 2, Red Faction Guerrilla, Red Faction Armageddon and Red Faction Armageddon's Path to War DLC—for £7.99/$11.99.

31st October 2016- Support for 21:9 resolutions- Fixed bug, where player could shot through a wall while standing behind it.- Added possibility to adjust FOV in multiplayer. Maximum multiplayer FOV value is 60.- Reduced heal backpack "health regen per second" to 250 from 600- Reduced firepower (commando) direct and area damage dealth factor to 1.2 from 1.5 - Removed Arc welder darkness effect which makes it extremely hard to hit someone using it on you in combat- Increased rail driver default refire delay to 1200 and MP override reload delay to 900. This ends up matching perfectly so it's ready to fire when the beam vanishes. Making it easier to dodge and increases skill to use

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The game that killed the franchise. Red Faction: Armageddon was Volition’s only real failure, a sequel to the stunning Red Faction: Guerilla, but one that failed to pick up nearly enough sales. THQ ditched it, and then moments later went under, the rights passing (along with Darksiders) to Nordic Games (who will likely sit on both like ancient dragons, jealously guarding their treasures and never letting anyone else ever touch them again). But you know what? It wasn’t too bad.

Volition will do a Stream on Friday May 15 @ 2pm PST/4pm CST/5pm EST about Red Faction Guerrila!

Join Senior Designer David Abzug, and Principal Programmer Eric Arnold who created the Geomod physics, who will be showing off a debug build and sharing dev stories about the franchise.http://twitch.tv/dsvolition